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    11 hours ago

    GTA IV is currently backwards compatible on Xbox, so you can already play it on there. If you have your old 360 disc that works you can use that to get the digital version.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Just keep Grove Street Games as far away from this as possible.

    No one wants to see them butcher another entry in this series with their lazy, AI-upscale slop.

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    1 day ago

    I guess AAA studios are hollywood now. Unable to create something new, put a new coat of paint on something from the attic. Milk the audience with nostalgia.

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      5 hours ago

      I have no issues with them remastering old games for newer platforms. I have a problem with remaking old games instead of making new games.

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        5 hours ago

        Such a thin line, but that’s exactly what I’m saying. That on top of stop charging full new game price for something that I played 10+ years ago that’s only a remaster.

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      1 day ago

      Now? They do that all the time, in fact Hollywood do this since I don’t know, the 50s?

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      1 day ago

      I get your point…

      But does it really apply when GTA VI is literally coming out within a month?

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        1 day ago

        My comment isn’t just about Rockstar, although they did also do some milking with GTA3 as well. Recently there was TES IV, plus all the Skyrim editions, from Bethesda. Now Gears of War is getting a remaster. In recent years, remakes and remasters from AAAs seem to have increased. Last of Us is another example.

        And to be clear, I’m not necessarily against the remakes/maintaining the classics to be playable on modern hardware. Really, it’s the price tags.

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    1 day ago

    Only reason I haven’t modded HDR for this game is because it’s DX9 and a pain to mod. (I already did GTAV - Enhanced and GTA Trilogy Remastered since it’s UE). If they make a new port for PC it’ll be able to complete the set.

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    1 day ago

    I hope they could re release a PC version as well. Current GTA IV PC version is laughable on modern hardware. The optimization mod works ok most of the time. But sometime it stutters like crazy and I need a hard PC reboot to fix it.

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        21 hours ago

        Hope you’re running on Vulkan, for me it went from 30ish fps to an illegally high number for some ungodly reason.

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      1 day ago

      The original will probably run better, too. I bet this is another TES IV situation where they stitched UE5 on top of the original game engine. The release pattern of being completely quiet, then random leak, then it drops is eerily similar.

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    1 day ago

    GTA IV reoptimized to run in modern hardware with less or at least more reasonable piss filter would be a nice upgrade. None of the visual mods could get ride of the weird haze around everything.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ok but don’t fix the swing set of doom. A significant portion of my playtime was trying to best my longest launch.